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MARTIN N. BAILEY, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 439,993, dated November 4, 1890.

7 Application filed February 19, 1890- Serial No. 340,978. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, MARTIN N. BAILEY, of New York city, in the county and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Paper Boxes, of which the iollowing is a full, clear, and exact descrip- My invention relates to an improvement in paper boxes designed to hold cigarettes, crayons, or other articles, and has for its object to provide a tray with a lip at one or both ends, which as the ends are carried out of the easing will drop and expose the ends of the cigarettes or other contents of the tray, and wherein when the tray is restored to its normal position the lips will be automatically carried upward to close the ends of the casing.

A further object of the invention is to provide a positive and durable hinge for the lips of the tray, to provide the tray with a matchreceptacle, andto form the tray andcasin g each from a single piece of material, cut and scored in such manner that the said material maybe easily and expeditiously folded to shape.

The invention consists in the novel construction and combination of the several parts, as will be hereinafter fully set forth, and pointed out in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar letters and figures of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the news.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the box, illustrating the tray as open at one end. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal vertical section through the box with the ends of the casing closed, the tray being in its normal position therein, and illustrating in dotted lines at one end the open position of the lips. Fig. 3 is a horizontal section through the box, taken practically on the line 3 3 of Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a perspective view of the tray-blank, partly folded to shape. Fig. 5 is a perspective View, partially in section, of a modified form of box, illustrating one lip as open. Fig. 6 is a perspective view of the tray-blank of this modified form of box, partially folded to shape. Fig. 7 is a perspective view of the completed casing formed from the blank of Fig. 10. Fig. 8 is a plan view of the tray-blank of the form of box illustrated in Fig. 1, and Fig. 9 is a plan view of the casing-blank of said box. Fig. 10 is a plan view of the casing-blank of the box illustrated in Fig. 5, and Fig. 11 is a plan view of the tray-blank of the same.

The blank A, from which the tray (illustrated in Figs. 1,2, and 3) is formed, consists of a piece of card or straw board or equivalent material, the central or body portion a whereof is practically rectangular, and provided at its four sides with wings, (designated as a, a a and 00 as best shown in Fig. 8. The side wings a and a are practically square, the wing a being the longer, and the end wings a and a are of equal size and also essentially square.

In the center of the body portion of the blank an X-cut 12 is made, and at the extremity of each arm of the X a transverse inwardly-extending cut 18 is produced, each of which cuts 13 is connected with a longitudinal cut 14, which latter cut terminates in the end wings a. and a upon a score-line 15, drawn from side to side of said wings. These cuts provide for two hinge-strips b and I), having an inner practically arrow-shaped head. A score-line 16 is drawn from the junction of the end wings with the said wings, terminating at the score-lines 15, and in the same line with each score-line 16 a cut 17 is made, which cut extends from the said scoreline 15 at a right angle thereto to the outer edge of each end wing. By this construction side flaps d and d are formed, connected by the portions 11 with the end wings, and the scoring of the end wings is completed by scoring a line 18 between the score-lines 15 and the outer edge, extending from one cut 17 to the other and at right angles thereto. A score-line 19 divides each side wing from the body, and one of the side wings a is provided with a second and parallel score-line 20, the opposite wing (i having three score-lines 21 22 23 drawn thereon, all parallel with the line 19, one being located near the outer or end edge of the wing, and the other two a slight distance apart near the center.

The casing-blank B is illustrated in Fig. 9. The said blank is essentially rectangular in general contour, being provided with trans- ICO verse score-lines 24, 25, 26, and 27. The score-- the score-lines .25 and 26 near the center. The space between the score-lines 26 and 27 comprises the bottom portion e of the casing. The space between the score-line 27 and the near outer edge forms one portion of the side 6'. The space between the score-lines and 26 forms the opposite side e The space between the score-lines 24 and 25 forms the top a and the space between the score-line 24 and the near end edge is adapted to complete ihe formation of the side e.

In what would be the end edges of the bottom of the casing when folded a rectangular recess 28 is formed, and in the space between the said recess and the score-lines 26 and 27 two transverse and parallel spaced cuts 29 are produced, the ends of each of which cuts are curved, as shown at 30 in said Fig. 9, the convexed portion of the latter cuts being made to face inward.

In forming the tray the flaps cl cl are bent upward upon the score-line 16, whereby the flaps are brought to an upright position. The

.flaps are then carried inward upon the scoreline 15, and the space between the said cuts 17 of each wing is then bent upward on the score-line 15 and downward and inward upon the score-line 18 over the flaps d d, whereupon the said flaps will be tied between the front and rear surfacesf and f, as shown in Figs. 2 and 4, the portions 11 forming ends for the tray-lips. The side flaps a is next bent to shape, first upon the score-line 19, and then upon the score-lines 22 and 23, and finally upon the score-line 21, forming thereby a rectangular match -receptacle F upon the body of the box at one side, as illustrated in Figs. 3 and 4. The tray is completed by bending the opposite side wing a upward upon the score-line 19 and then upon the score-line 20, that portion of the wing between the score-line 20 and the outer end being carried over to connect with the top of the match-receptacle and form the upper portion F of the tray, as best shown in Fig. 2; but the tray need not be provided with the upper portion F" unless so desired.

In the formation of the casingblank it will be observed thata transverse strip G is formed at the bottom between the cuts 29 and the recesses 28, which strips I term stops, they being adapted for a purpose hereinafter set forth.

To form the casing, the blank is bent upward upon the score-line 27 to form a portion of one side, then upon the score-lines 26 and 25, completing theformation of the opposite side, and then upon the score-line 24, thus forming the top and completing the side first folded. The casing having been completed, the heads of the hinge-strips b and b are introduced into the compound cuts 29 30, the tray having been previously introduced into the casing, and when the said hinge-strips have been straightened the stop-strips G effectually prevent the heads of the hinge-strips from being withdrawn from the casing en tirely when the tray is manipulated. The heads of the hinge-strips are not visible in the completed box, their location, however, being clearly illustrated in Fig. 2.

WVhen the tray is pushed outward at either end, the hinge-strip at the outwardly-carried end travels outward only until the head is brought in contact with the stop-strip G,whereupon, as the lip connected with the strip cannot move any further laterally, it is compelled to drop downward, as shown in positive lines in Fig. 1 and in dotted lines in Fig. 2, and remains in this position, exposing the ends of the cigarettes or the contents of the box until the tray is again restored to its normal position. It will be understood that the tray may be provided with a lip at one end only, in which event but one hinge-strip is formed in the blank.

In Figs. 5, 6, and 7 I have illustrated a modified form of box, the blanks whereof are I shown iii-Figs. 10 and 11. The tray-blank is shown in Fig. 11 and is intended to represent a tray having-a lip at one end only, and, as illustrated in the blank A, the blank 0 of this modification comprises a body portion a, end wings a and a and side wings a and a The wings are divided from the body in the same manner by score-lines'ltl, and the end wings are each provided with the cuts 17, forming the flaps dand d, and the score-lines 15, 16, and 18, while the side flaps are provided with the score-lines 20, 21, 22, and 23.

Instead of the X-cut 12 upon the body portion of the blank, a crescent-shaped cut 32 is formed at one end of said body. The upper portion of the out, however, does not extend entirely across the body of the blank, this portion of the out being made upon one end of score-line 19, and is connected with two short cuts 33, which correspond with the cuts 14 in the blank A, these cuts 33 being made to terminate upon the score-line 15, thereby producing a single hinge-strip b, the head whereof is also essentially arrow-shaped. The casing D for this form of box is shown in Fig. 10. It is rectangular in general contour and provided, as is the blank B, with score-lines 27, 26, 25, and 24, the said score-lines being provided in order that the casing-blank D,

just described, may be bent to shape in the same manner as the casing-blank B. No recess 28 is formed in the ends of the bottom portion of the blank D; buta single compound cut 29 and 30 is formed near one end, and in the space between the score-line 27 and the near edge, which comprises a portion of one side of the portion 6 of the box near each end, a U-shaped orhorseshoe cut34isformed, whereby tongues 35 are produced. These tongues, when the casing is folded to shape, are made to enter slots 36, formed in the space intervening between the score-line 24 and the near transverse edge thereto. The side e, containing the tongues in the formation of easing, folds over upon the side containing the slots, as illustrated in Fig. 7. The tray ITO in this latter form of the box is introduced into its casing, and the hinge b is passed through the compound slot or cut 29 30 in like manner to the box firstdescribed.

Instead of the tongues and slots 36 being employed, the casing may be gummed, glued, or otherwise secured to shape.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. In a paper box, the combination, with a casing open at its ends and provided with a cut in its back near one end, of a tray held to slide in the casing, provided with a droplip, a hinge-strip forming a portion of the bottom of said lip and terminating in an enlarged head, which enters the slots in the easing, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

2. In a paper box, the combination, with a casing open at its ends and provided with acut in the bottom, of a tray held to slide in said casing, having a match-receptacle formed therein and provided with a drop-lip at its end, and a hinge-strip forming a portion of the bottom of said drop-lip, having an enlarged head, which enters a cut in the back of the casing, substantially as shown and described.

3. In a paper box, the combination, with a casing having open ends and providedwith a cut in its back near the end, forming a stopstrip in said back, substantially as described, of a tray held to slide in the said casing,having a drop-lip formed at one end, and a hingestrip forming a portion of said drop-lip, provided with an enlarged head, which enters the cut in the back of the casing and contacts with the stop-strip formed by said out in withdrawing the sliding section of the box, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

4. In a paper box, the combination, with a casing formed of a single piece of material and provided with a cut in its back near one end, of a tray also formed of a single piece of material, folded to provide an interior matchreceptacle, a drop-lip at its end, and a hingestrip forming a portion of the bottom of the drop lip andterminating in an enlarged head, whose inner end enters the said cut, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

5. In a paper box, a tray-blank consisting of an essentially-rectangular body having wings formed at its sides and ends, the end wings being provided with the longitudinal parallel score-lines 15, 16, and 18, and a transverse cut 17 at each side of the center, extending partially from side to side, forming end flaps d d, the side wings being provided one with transverse parallel score-lines 21, 22, and 23 and the other with a single transverse score-line 20, the body having an angular cut shaped, essentially, as an arrowhead, and straight parallel cuts connecting therewith forming a hinge-strip, substantially as specified.

MARTIN N. BAILEY.

Witnesses:

J. F. ACKER, J12, RoBT. H. PORTEOUS. 

